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UNITED STATES PATENT QEFIGE.

MARTIN H. CRANE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO CRANE, BREED St I CO., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENTl IN COFFlN-HA'NDLEKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,812, dated June 22, 1875; application filed May 12, 1875.

CASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN H. CRANE, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Coffin Handle, of which the following is a specification My invention relates to a new, convenient, and artistic pendent handle for cofns and burial-caskets. Y

In its most complete form my improvement essentially com prises a tubular handle proper, which receives a cord whose extremities are knotted or oth erwise secured within ears, lugs, or escutcheons for attachment to the coffinbody, as hereinafterrcpresented and described.

A simpler form of my improvement has a single ear and cord, whose free extremity is -knotted wit-hin the tubular handle proper.

y in gthe handle secured to the cofns side. Figs.

Aand 5 are, respectively, afront elevation and a vertical section, of a simpler form of my improvement.

A are ears, lugs, or esutcheon-plates, the

v same consisting of flange a. and a hollow protuberance or nipple, c. Oriices a" in the said flanges receive screws or rivets E, whereby the n device is fastened to the body F of the' coffin or casket. B and B are cords, whose ends are, respectively, knotted` or otherwise Irmly secured within the nipple c and tassels C.

In the complete form of my improvement both cords B and B are rove through a tubular handle proper, which is preferably composed of two similar campanes or bell-shaped bulbs or she1ls,D D', having screw-threadedA margins d and d', by which they are united to form the handle proper.

The above-described device, besides embodying a most convenient handle, constitutes a very tasteful and elegant appendage-more especially when its various portions are embellished with the represented or other appropriate ornamentation.

The above-described illustration of my i11- vention may receive various modifications. For example: Instead of the duplicated ears, cords, and tassels, and compound tubeD D', I may construct, for the lighter grades of cofns, a pendent handle, formed as in Figs. 4 and 5, a single ear and cord heilig used, and the handle proper consisting of a single bellformed or other suitable knob or terminal, D.

The double form may be varied by connect-- ing the. cord from each respective ear with the tassel most remote from it, the said cords pass' ing each other within the handles proper, and being knotted therein. The handle proper lmay consist of a single tube cast upon a core.

1 claim as new and of my invention--` The pendent cofn-handle, composed of a projected hollow conical ear, A, a cord, B, and a tubular handle proper upon the end of said cord.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

MARTIN H. CRANE.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

